Oralift Face Time

By: Katharine Griffiths
Created on 21st June 2011

Cosmetic Surgery & Aesthetics Guide investigates all the benefits of Dr Nick Mohindra’s revolutionary Oralift device, which could provide full facial rejuvenation, with no knives, no needles and no lotions or potions

Migraines and facial pains Oralift works to retrain the muscles of the face, and one of its benefits is to lessen or solve the problem of teeth grinding and clenching, which in turn resolves the associated side effects of migraines and facial pains.

Eyes The eyes are often a giveaway of ageing, and although surgery can deal with bags and lines, it cannot bring back that sparkle that disappears with age. The Oralift device assists the tissues to lift and restores a more youthful expression, opening up your eyes and giving them a revitalised shine.

Another side effect of the Oralift’s impact on jaw-clenching is that it can balance out any asymmetry in the eyes.

Skin The Oralift can help to close up enlarged pores and encourage a more radiant complexion – just like a workout in the gym can make you glow with health, the Oralift encourages you to exercise the muscles of your face, causing your skin to look younger and healthier.

Because use of the Oralift causes micro-trauma to the muscles of the face, another theory is that it triggers the natural healing process, which stimulates the body to produce more collagen, leaving you with plumper, firmer, younger-looking skin.

Lips It is well-documented that a plump pout is a sign of youth, and our lips tend to lose volume as we age. The lips can thin for a variety of reasons, from lack of support inside the mouth, caused by tooth wear or loss, to sagging tissues of the face and thinning of the muscles around the mouth. As Oralift works on the principles of exercise, it can plump up these muscles, resulting in fuller lips.

Facial shape As we age, many of us find that our face shape changes from an oval to a squarer appearance, as the skin on the cheeks falls prey to gravity and droops downwards, forming jowls. By using an Oralift device, you can restore lost lower facial height and work on the muscles of the face to lift and tighten the skin around the jaw line, bringing back that youthful oval shape and plumping up the cheeks.

The ageing triangle

Left: In youth the cheekbones are high and well defined, and the jaw line is also well defined, yet soft. This is called the ‘triangle of youth’.

Right: As ageing occurs the face becomes more ‘oblong’ with the cheeks flattening due to bone and fat loss, and the jowls develop.

The ‘triangle of youth’ is now lost. Reversing the ageing triangle The development of the Oralift device commenced in the 1990s, when Dr Mohindra was conducting research into the benefits of increasing lower facial height for the relief of headaches, neck and shoulder pains.

Over time, patients began to report a rejuvenating effect on the face from using the device, but as a dentist, Dr Mohindra was not at that time used to recognising subtle changes in the face.“A doctor from the Middle East was the first to point out to me that I was reversing the ageing triangle,” he recalls, “I hadn’t even heard about this ageing triangle but she explained what it was and then it seemed obvious: jaws are lifted, jowls are tightened and the shape of the face is changing.”

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